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Earth: 5 x 10^-5 T
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*5 x 10^-5 T: Earth
  
Sun: 5 x 10^-3 T nasa web site ref: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm
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*5 x 10^-3 T: Sun; see NASA web site ref: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast15feb_1/
  
Refrigerator magnet: 5 x 10^-3 T
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*5 x 10^-3 T: Refrigerator magnet
  
Neodynium rare-earth magnet: 1 T
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*1 T: Neodynium rare-earth magnet: 1 T
  
Typical Hospital MRI: 2-3 T
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*2-3 T: Typical Hospital MRI
  
Functional MRI: 4 T
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*4 T: Functional MRI
  
Experimental Human MRI: 8.4 T [REF]
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*8.4 T: Experimental Human MRI [REF]
  
Experimental Animal MRI: 11 - 20 T [REF]
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*11-21 T: Experimental Animal MRI
  
Largest continuous man-made magnet: 45 T [Ref FSU magnet lab}
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:11.7 T used for animal MRI: Beck et al, PMID 11755090
  
Neutron Stars: 10^8 T [Kouveliotou]
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:21.1 T used for animal MRI: Fu et al. PMID 16125429
  
Fields above 10^5 T squeeze elecron orbitals in to cigar shapes
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*45 T: Largest continuous man-made magnet [Ref FSU magnet lab}
  
Magnetars: 10^11 T [Kouveliotou]
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*10^8 T: Neutron Stars [Kouveliotou]
  
Upper Limit: 10^13 T "No known objects in the universe can generate and maintain fields stronger than this level." [Kouveliotou]
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:''Fields above 10^5 T squeeze elecron orbitals in to cigar shapes''
  
Refs:
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*10^11 T: Magnetars [Kouveliotou]
  
Kouveliotou, C., Duncan, R. C. Thompson, C. "Magnetars", Scientific American, Feb. 2003 http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/sciam.pdf
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*10^13 T: Upper Limit
  
link to Duncan's website: solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html
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:"No known objects in the universe can generate and maintain fields stronger than this level." [Kouveliotou]
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'''References:'''
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Kouveliotou, C., Duncan, R. C. Thompson, C. "Magnetars", Scientific American, Feb. 2003 http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/sciam.pdf
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link to Duncan's website: http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html
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[[Category:Magnetic Fields]]

Latest revision as of 07:48, 25 July 2017

  • 5 x 10^-5 T: Earth
  • 5 x 10^-3 T: Refrigerator magnet
  • 1 T: Neodynium rare-earth magnet: 1 T
  • 2-3 T: Typical Hospital MRI
  • 4 T: Functional MRI
  • 8.4 T: Experimental Human MRI [REF]
  • 11-21 T: Experimental Animal MRI
11.7 T used for animal MRI: Beck et al, PMID 11755090
21.1 T used for animal MRI: Fu et al. PMID 16125429
  • 45 T: Largest continuous man-made magnet [Ref FSU magnet lab}
  • 10^8 T: Neutron Stars [Kouveliotou]
Fields above 10^5 T squeeze elecron orbitals in to cigar shapes
  • 10^11 T: Magnetars [Kouveliotou]
  • 10^13 T: Upper Limit
"No known objects in the universe can generate and maintain fields stronger than this level." [Kouveliotou]

References:

Kouveliotou, C., Duncan, R. C. Thompson, C. "Magnetars", Scientific American, Feb. 2003 http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/sciam.pdf

link to Duncan's website: http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html